^ this pretty much makes my point.
Seconded.
This is gonna cause a small inferno, but I've never used OS X for any significant period of time and yet I can sit down at a Mac and find what I need (whether it's a file or a function) very quickly and very reliably.
Whatever those guys are doing, it works.
I have never used a Mac for more than minute, but I could figure out how to do basic stuff with it. Interestingly, I can't do the same with the Ribbon, though. And plain Windows 7 UI is slower for me than the Classic XP. Although search itself has radically improved in Win 7 and can now actually find stuff! Too bad I don't often need to search for anything.
I fail to see what one thing has to do with another. Ribbons are not limiting your options, they are supposed to provide quick and easy access to the functions that, based on the current context, you are most likely to use.
Relevant parts bolded. After checking some of the links, Ribbon is based on statistical information on how the program is averagely used. What happens when you don't use it with average patterns and it is not customizable? Answer: it is actually going to be slower. Worse, in computer aided design, the usage is pretty much random, and then non-modal design is actually more efficient.
So? Vista (which did most of the UI changes) is 3 years old now. Not my fault if people didn't use the time to adapt.
I don't have time to f*** around with the computer all day long when I'm supposed to do design or research work. You know, to get actually something done to pay the salaries of the tech support. The actual answer to your question is that Vista didn't work well enough. You can't have a half working OS in a computer with which you are supposed to present something in customer meetings. No, you need to have something that absolutely works, and for that reason XP is actually still dominant in corporate world. I expect Microsoft got it right with Windows 7 and it is eventually going to replace the aging XP. I halfway expect that the UI **** storm hasn't even landed yet. Time will prove me wrong, though, and that's within one or two years.
eventually though you will adapt (or die of old age) the question is will the increases in productivity outweigh the loss of productivity in the long run, and unfortunately the answer is yes, if it is conclusively faster, then it's just a matter of time until it has paid for its self and then it's granting more productivity.
The data from AutoCAD users speaks against Ribbon. And now there seems to be changes coming on to the UI. It cannot be disputed that the Office UI might need a remake, but even Microsoft has had to back off from their Office 2007 Ribbon. I'm looking at the proposed OpenOffice 3 new UI designs that seem to be more logical to me. Will be interesting to see how it fares.
